count2infinity wrote:Often times in music, it's not about what you play, but when you don't play it (or so my jazz teacher said in high school).
This is a perfect example of my hatred for (apparently not all) jazz and it's musicians. Such an air of pompousness that exceeds every other genre put together.
This is not directed at c2i, but rather his jazz teacher.
yeah... I didn't really get it. I was bad at jazz and improv.
Crunchy chips. Don't get me wrong, I like to eat them. But it irrationally peeves me when somebody within 10 feet of me is crunching away at them. When did you replace your teeth with a rock crusher? Aaargh!
Crunchy chips. Don't get me wrong, I like to eat them. But it irrationally peeves me when somebody within 10 feet of me is crunching away at them. When did you replace your teeth with a rock crusher? Aaargh!
The grant that I'm on has it's own center here at PSU and every week there's a seminar with lunch provided. Used to be those sheet pizzas that you can feed a million people for $50. They changed it to sandwiches and kettle chips. If there's an absolutely terrible time for a room of people to be eating chips it's during someone's talk that they've been working on for the past who knows how long.
Gaucho wrote:It's not a joke, but it certainly is humurous.
Yup, agreed. They don't think it's a joke.
You don't believe that silence plays an important role in music?
This is not about space and silence. Listen to that thing. How about I compose a tune called 5'56". Six movements, few minutes each. First three will have 1 note. The great 4th will have 2 notes. The last two back to 1 note. I'll call it art. You're going to listen to it?
count2infinity wrote:Often times in music, it's not about what you play, but when you don't play it (or so my jazz teacher said in high school). But the complete silence act? That's just nonsense. It's like some modern art where they're being edgy just to be edgy.
Space/silence is used when soloing or even playing slower pieces. You can't always play non-stop. But you're right, that thing is just nonsense.
Ugh just read the first comment of the 4'33" YouTube video. "You don't appreciate sound"
Jesus tap dancing Christ this guy has to be a troll right?
I cant remember what its from specifically but its kind of like this bit where a renowned artist paints an intentionally dumb artwork and let's the "intellectuals" feast upon it like its a god damn masterpiece.
Sarcastic wrote:
This is not about space and silence. Listen to that thing. How about I compose a tune called 5'56". Six movements, few minutes each. First three will have 1 note. The great 4th will have 2 notes. The last two back to 1 note. I'll call it art. You're going to listen to it?
lol, the first thing I thought when I listened to that 4'33" was Dadaism. And the only thing I can remember about that was Marcel Duchamp's urinal painting.
I work with a guy who can take any story or situation and somehow make it about him. No matter what, he can relate his life to something. The dude just loves to talk about himself.
Crankshaft wrote:I work with a guy who can take any story or situation and somehow make it about him. No matter what, he can relate his life to something. The dude just loves to talk about himself.
Yeah trying to find commonalities... **** that guy
Crankshaft wrote:I work with a guy who can take any story or situation and somehow make it about him. No matter what, he can relate his life to something. The dude just loves to talk about himself.
I'm that guy. I'm aware of it and try to curb it and be a better active listener, but I can't help but try and match experiences. Not sure if it's an empathy thing, accommodation, or a narcissism trait. Want to help me talk it out?
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Crankshaft wrote:I work with a guy who can take any story or situation and somehow make it about him. No matter what, he can relate his life to something. The dude just loves to talk about himself.
I'm that guy. I'm aware of it and try to curb it and be a better active listener, but I can't help but try and match experiences. Not sure if it's an empathy thing, accommodation, or a narcissism trait. Want to help me talk it out?
I don't think this guy realizes he even does it. It's obviously not done with malice but if we're talking about replacing the toner in the printer, we don't need to hear about that one time you tried to change the toner at your old job and got ink all over your shirt.
When people immediately crunch candy that is meant to be, sigh, sucked on for a while...it hurts my teeth when you do that, just eat candy like a normal human...
